Pearl Harbor Remembrance in 1942, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii
Photo description accompanying it:
This photo was taken one year after the 1941 Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor that killed about 2,400 Americans. With the volcanic cone of Diamond Head in the background, Navy personnel place leis on the gravestones of their comrades who died during the attack on the Naval Air Station at Kaneohe Bay, which occurred just minutes before the Pearl Harbor attacks. Twenty were killed in the Kaneohe Bay attack, including two civilians. The enlisted personnel were buried at this beach near the community of Kaneohe. The Naval air station has since been converted to Marine Corps Base Hawaii. The Pearl Harbor memorial, called the USS Arizona Memorial, is west of here, at the site of the final resting place of the 1,177 sailors and Marines who died in the attacks while aboard the USS Arizona."
Farging idiots should not be allowed to caption photos they know nothing about. That is NOT Diamond Head. It is the crater at the tip of Kaneohe on the opposite side of the island..
My DIL’s mother was at Sunday mass in Kaneohe when the bombs started——she was about 12,her older sister was so frightened that she fainted.
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